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Evolving language compositionality in a frequency-structured meaning space
Fabio De Ponte, Eloise Gaines-White, Conor Houghton +1
The iterated learning model was introduced to investigate language evolution: the way in which the characteristic properties of human languages have been shaped, at least partly, b…
Image, Word and Thought: A More Challenging Language Task for the Iterated Learning Model
Hyoyeon Lee, Seth Bullock, Conor Houghton
The iterated learning model simulates the transmission of language from generation to generation in order to explore how the constraints imposed by language transmission facilitate…
An iterated learning model of language change that mixes supervised and unsupervised learning
Jack Bunyan, Seth Bullock, Conor Houghton
The iterated learning model is an agent model which simulates the transmission of of language from generation to generation. It is used to study how the language adapts to pressure…
Modeling language contact with the Iterated Learning Model
Seth Bullock, Conor Houghton
Contact between languages has the potential to transmit vocabulary and other language features; however, this does not always happen. Here, an iterated learning model is used to ex…